swimming for life

Monday, November 01, 2010

Well October wasn't a big running or workout month. I ran 10 times for a total of 62.35 miles. Not as much as September but not so bad. I'm a bit behind in my training for the Walt Disney Marathon but I will hopefully make up some runs this month. My excuses for not running are lame so I just need to be more dedicated. I ran today for the first time in a week. Oy! So not good. Compared to past months:

September I ran 16 times for 105.21 miles

August I ran 3 times for 27.23 miles.

July I ran 15 times for 66.54 miles

June I ran 12 times for 15.92 miles

May I ran 1 times for 3.08 miles.

April I ran 16 times for 28.23 miles.

March I ran 18 times for 91.35 miles.

February I ran 18 times for 75.14 miles.

January I ran 24 times for 124.97 miles.My shoe meter is reminding me it's almost time to get new running shoes. Which I will be doing later this month as I'm waiting for a sale.

As for swimming...

Well I swam once for 2,700 yards. One lone lap swim workout which was the first time I swam in two months. But at least it was a start. My lack of swimming has more to do with where I'm living then just being lazy. I could have tried to make a 5:15am coached workout a few towns away but really that didn't seem realistic. I couldn't swim at one of the sport pools around here till I became a resident which happened on Friday. So now I can go do lap swims for free 7 days a week from 7am to about 7pm. So I have no excuse. Now there is a Masters Team but they only have a 9am workout which I will try to attend from time to time this month. But I have to wait to a Tuesday that I can go at 11:30am to "try out" for the team. And even then I'll be on the regular workout "squad" and be on the waiting list for the more "competitive" workout "squad". I really don't know what that all means but at least I'll be swimming.

Friday, October 29, 2010

For the first time since August I was able to swim in a pool with lane lines and that was 25 yards. In fact I had my very own lane. Of course I'm so out of shape! I was sore by the end of my warm up. Two months of not swimming will do that to a person! That and the afternoon sun was beating right down on me. The plus side will be an awesome speedo tan!

Warm Up

300 Swim

Then I helped put in two lane lines so walking down 2x25's and swim 2x25's back so let's chalk that up as a 100.

300 Kick

300 Pull

100 Swim

So 1,100 warm up.

Now since I thought they had set up the pool I went back to find one of the clocks. And I did find three clocks but no batteries. Guess next time if I want to do interval training I'll need to bring my own batteries. Since I am out of shape I really didn't care. Was just curious what I was able to swim.

3 Rounds:

100 Swim

100 Kick

100 Pull

No interval since I didn't think of brining batteries to the pool. So that was another 900 yards to make it 2,000 yards.

I then decided to try out a few pair of my new goggles from Ministry of Swimming. I already had been wearing a pair of the Zombie Silver for the warm up. Gotta admit I liked them. Out of all the pairs the Zombie was my favorite. So I did about 4 or more 50's but let's say 4 trying on the different goggles and swimming. (200/2200) I then went back to the Zombie Silver goggles to swim a bit more. I'll have to give them all one full workout each before I judge them although I think I have two favorites already.

3x100's Pull

100 IM swim

Then I did 3x25's underwater / no breathing. Then 1 more 25 easy.

2,700 measily little yards. But it's a start. Rebuilding! I'm going to try a few more lap swims on my own before I start swimming with the local team. But now that I'm an official resident I can use the lap pool for free so swimming is back on!

Monday, October 11, 2010

This morning I had planned on running. Had the alarm go off at 4:45am but decided to hit snooze one too many times. Then around 6am I heard the trash pick up but just rolled over. Later on around 8:30 I decided to get out of bed. I debated on going running but instead ate breakfast. Standing, walking and going up and down ladders all day at my crap part-time job is making me lazy. My legs were sore when I woke up. Damn it. I want to run tomorrow but working to 1am then back at work at 9am. Grrr...may try to run anyways. Get 3 hours sleep and try to stay awake at work tomorrow.

The good news is that I have an eye appointment on Friday which means new contacts! Wahoo! Then get a drivers lic. so I can swim a the residents swim pool here which is a lap pool with lap swim hours almost all day! Finally I can start swimming again. I so can't wait as I am so out of shape.

On average September was my most miles per run. It also was the 2nd most miles in a month for 2010 and the 3rd most miles in a month ever. I am impressed just because of the humidity here in Florida make running horrible. I've been waking up at 4:45am to get myself together to run before the sun comes up. Luckily it'll cool down so October should be a good running month. I will be doing the Disney World Marathon in January so I gotta keep running.

As for swimming...

Umm…swimming? Remember Swimming? Well, sorta I do. For the month of September I have swam 0 yards and 0 meters. I did go noodling in the pool one day. Right now I don't have access to a local Masters team or lap swim pool. That will change in a few weeks so I'll be back in the pool. When I was playing around in the fun rec pool I gotta admit that I'm so out of shape. In one month I just lost the ability to swim at any speed. I can't go to much longer without swimming. I may even force myself to swim at a local Masters meet just to get in some pool time. But that is up in the air.